Vectors Quotes

“To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.”
― James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

“All work is the avoidance of harder work.”
― James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

“Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly, can't go on if we don't, can't stop saying what it means, can't stop giving us something to forgive.”
― James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

“If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.”
― James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

“Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.”
― James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays